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Marbled Lampshade

Lampshade
2015-2016 (made)
Artist/Maker
Assemble (made)
Granby Workshop (maker)
Place of origin
Liverpool (made)

This is one of a collection of objects in the V&As collection made by members of the Granby Workshop, a social enterprise created in Liverpool by the collective Assemble. In 2015, with the Granby Four Streets project, of which the Granby Workshop plays the most significant and highest profile constituent, Assemble won Britain’s most prestigious art award, the Turner Prize.

Object details

Category
Furniture
Object type
Lampshade
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Lampshade
  • Structure
TitleMarbled Lampshade (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Furnishing paper dipped into pool of colour. Carrageenan moss boiled with water to create size. Size if then poured into water bath with acrylic inks floated in surface. Items are lowered onto the acrylic and coloured in a marbled pattern. The paper was then cut to size and shape, and tape applied to allow the shade to be constructed. Wire shaped into structure for shade to sit on.
Ink
Card
Poured
Coloured
Floated
Brief description
Granby Workshop; Marbled Lampshade, 2015-2016
Physical description
Lampshade cover; flat paper with pink marbled decoration, round with cut out circle in centre and section cut out from side.
Lampshade structure; white wire structure for cover to go on.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.1cm
  • Width: 9cm
Style
21st Century
Production typesmall batch
Gallery label
(2021)
Design to regenerate communities

In 2015, residents from Granby, a neighbourhood in Liverpool, co-founded Granby Workshop with the London-based architecture collective Assemble. Producing ceramics, stoneware and textiles, it is a social enterprise supporting the community through making. Similarly, the Wealdstone Youth Workshop, set up in 2018 by regeneration agency Spacemakers, gave north-west London teenagers who had experienced cuts to youth services the opportunity to contribute to a new public square in their neighbourhood. With designers Silo Studio, they created a multifunctional leg for stools, chairs and benches, and sold them to fundraise for the project.

Marbled-paper lampshade
2015–16
Designed and made by Assemble and Granby Workshop, UK
Acrylic ink, paper and wire
Museum no. CD.145:1, 2-2016

Pressed terracotta lampshade
2015–16
Designed and made by Assemble and Granby Workshop, UK
Terracotta and iron oxide
Museum no. CD.146-2016

Composite-rock mantelpiece
2015–16
Designed and made by Assemble and Granby Workshop with Will Shannon, UK
Granby Rock (sand, brick, slate, stone, cement and aggregate)
Museum no. CD.139:1 to 4-2016

Chair made using Wealdstone legs
2018
Designed by Esther Calinawan, Kayleigh Littlemore, Leo Harrison, Marina Marbella, Marius Dinu and Tanya Galia with the Wealdstone Youth Workshop and Silo Studio, UK
Plywood, polypropylene, paper pulp
Museum no. CD.7-2020

The object sits in the 'Crisis and Conflict' section of the Design 1900-Now gallery opened in June 2021.
Summary
This is one of a collection of objects in the V&As collection made by members of the Granby Workshop, a social enterprise created in Liverpool by the collective Assemble. In 2015, with the Granby Four Streets project, of which the Granby Workshop plays the most significant and highest profile constituent, Assemble won Britain’s most prestigious art award, the Turner Prize.
Collection
Design, Architecture and Digital Department
Accession number
CD.145:1, 2-2016

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Record createdApril 4, 2016
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1348050/marbled-lampshade-lampshade-assemble/
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